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rD 0ER OWN PAPER. BP rL -Povall. First of Wo- ty Years Ago. oldest reeident8 of can 'remember Mrs. whose eccentricities hle character creaieu man aJv thq n ,1 cn 3J T. cUaation at the national re? vl vears ago. 1 However, WJ. ' ..fthe sayings and doings ,M Vtbe rpinds of a rapidly-de rr 10 ! ,1 -,-Wn khew her and ad ibb nw r- . f"?t.. inHi.idualitvL' An old iSSS ttir Va.hiton, while In. ther day, cbaracteriz- he JlaiV uuou ircnsa w. LeJ 16 keep if. an a wit Mrs. toil tne " For twenty ryears she herself promi- rit -nt8. spec."-. .1 ,"7 V v ih Jwas afa adfocateof the rights ?.ihnkr.anfl her followers took up ffiirht aiinst the common ene- uiniuvniuou uo and she i auch forc, wit and ..itKl sea iy . s , ! t.! - : !;,1!tt oft-af thtttf Kofi it nercuciiT v? ' !-ro tn Irnnw her nnwera. a. iihuaUV pucceeueu m iuo, ycu l. :UI xkn nnrlafrnnlr anri eaeraliy catoe oil victorious p ner bittl. Of her husband little is rtmberedj or, if jrem&mbered, it soi ipokeo or, because nis star hi 'eclipseq and oversnaaowea by ii wife. He-is saip tp nave Deen mild-tempered man, Who took trie tfcenfriehieii of his (wife in a phil ofopbical manner, and dared not, east dm not, oneri opposition head df the household. rat the wilds! of the far ne. i nese years, iuu PEDULEI) HER OWN BOOKS. Mri Royajl was the bete rjioir of -jblio ' men. riiieen years pi ner ,trly ife war spent upon tne tron- ler w th the Indians, during tne tjijWhen tpey were much; more laineious and warlike than at pres L No scolit, cowboyj rancher or orty hiner could relate any more uriling, thrilling or exciting ex- Krieac8 in; fist than s i! incident and accident, are said i bve given some of the flavor of wildness to her later writings and eondt. When she bame to JWash- Dsrton she began writing a I series o books getting forth her opinions if public affairs and men, and her eorhi of government and things geieral. he published eleven rolumee in all. and these she would ike under her arm, and peddle ibout'at $1 each. In her capacity ti agkt for ber own books she tag a persistent andj abl-e saleswo- Bto, and for years it was the chief lourca of her; livelihood.' I ; la nereon a m J aDgular, Mrs. Royall was tall with a hot . unkindly ures were fi h er'at be hard, attributed ice, ilthough her fea fsmewbat inclined to This fact was generally to the roujzh (Western; life she had H, for her disposition was lemper- i wit i mildne8. Upon all occa ions. Bhe waV garbed In k calico pwn, invariably clean! and well mdered, while about her waist ; wjre a cord and tassel. The i.eevet of her dress were! always of oa loon Datterni Added to this srte-up, her pead-gearj consisted enuated gh poke bonnet, whidh made figure look phenom i this attire Mrs. in'variabiy I seen, and Ottly tall. was and poi BAUD ON arg. Koyall wai fifty-six years ' s u. .v it ' ; - -sp w n e n e n e beean" to write, skty-twp tears old when she ?ffcf hehweekly hewspaperfwhich ?l for tw'entv-threo , vears. until i r . ..- " ' r ' . known :' to every one in nted out to strangers. 'HESUTT EStlANS. 1 .! Hh,intt8 C( lumnfl nf Uradttd'wiile 'ipracerta f uicai as :pny towa Menoted 54. It was through this sheet that she attention1, jller ha n religious sect was Betsvi Trotwood riLdonkey8,;in Dick- iipnlied to the church- it denomination "were nd Blaeli.coat8," she bad a list of names by whicrl rverab he or V t m. it was one of p to apply names to sought to ridicule. e Jose ph Gales, of Heeti was nnn whri fr- for ner t-f ....... . i . f r l ,rim' be always re ftin a9 i4lo her -Joe." 4 :irl8 JWapg oh Globe 3kU ' UJ 1 yal1 hpetticoat :it0.8 5; irf'prloon traitor." Of la . - ti; 01 men ., ' retwted b y eiying that alitor is at jea.t bet- g ana; generous n our country, and thH8 ' V?WaraeJ. They toil at Hue, ? 'J aid dajJ to! improve, rp!! Mr em ilie world Ulh lot t! I60? her censure were Citr rather fulsome. A Vldf Vleian whom 'ahe irreat. r-r uoBnoea as "tne most amiable and interesting hu man being I have ever met with, the center of every graco and every virtue." Of Washington women she wrote: "The ladies of Washington are very handsome; they have delicate features and much? expression of countenance." . She took great pride in exalting Washington as the model city, and ofttimes in do ing so berated the neighboring towns. As an example of this, she wrote: "Baltimore is the most illiterate, proud, and ignorant city, except Bicbmond, in the Union. In no other city I have ever visited do the ladies dress ee abominably." This she said, notwithstanding her own peculiar and unfashionable manner of dress. Mrs. Boy all war among the first of women journal ists. At least she was the first one to attract wide attention. The two who are said to Have antedated her were Mrs. Colain, who publish' ed the Weekly Messenger, in 1817, and Amelia Walter,' the editor of the Boston Transcript in the thir ties. Washington Post. To Hold Volunteers. Washington, April 15. The de mand of Governor Lee, of South Dakota, and of other officials in the frontier States of the West ior the discbarge of the volunteers from that section- now serving "in the Philippines has fallen like an icy shower bath upon the White House and the War Department. It would appear as if, from the point of reason! and justice, the de mand is proper and must be ac oeded to. But the action of the adjutant-general in making public the telegrams of General Otis on the subject of the, volunteers and his announcement that the whole matter will be left in the hands of General Otis is notice that the volunteers are to be retained in service without regard to their right to claim discharge. Every one knows kow easy it is to get around the plain intent of a law by. springing technicalities, and the doubts and suggestions which were broached today were quite abundant enough to insure the holding on to the volunteers for an indefinite time to come7 Indeed, the War Department offi cials admit that to let the volun teers in the Philippines- go now would entail disasters awful to contemplate. Not only every one of them is needed, but there is im minent demand for large reinforce ments. To reduce the force under General Otis now would be simply to surrender all the results of the terrific fighting and loss of life for the last two months. As stated by a high official, the withdrawal of any of our troops at this juncture would put - such spirit Jnto the insurgents that we weuld be lucky if we were not driven back to our ships. It is understood every inducement will be offered to volunteers'to consent to remain until the Fillipinos are properly pacified and "benevolently assimilated." - But, willingly, they can't get away just yet. . An Eccentric Suicide. Cumberland, Md., April 14 Prof. J. C. Eckford, 63 years of age, of Portsmouth, Va , who has been a teacher of violin, and piano music in Southern colleges and was a member of Stuart's Cavalry, Con federate army, sent a bullet through his head, in front of the residence of Governor Lowndes today, caus ing a wound that will likely prove fatal. Eckford is a distinguished looking old-school gentleman with flowing beard. Among his effects at a boarding housewas found the following statement: . "The reasons for killing myself are nobody's business. From a customary curiosity people meddle and inquire into things that con cern them not. Let the law take its coure. I am solely responsible for being dead. I recognize no God, ior there is none. The few appurtenances I have will certainly (defray my board expenses at the PorteifHouse." Bandits Led by & Woman. Hatama, April 15. A daring band of Cuban. bandits, led by a woman on a big black charger, and armed with a silver machete and rifle, raided the Pinellos plantation, owned by Senora Puri, two miles south of Caimito and ten miles from Havana, at twilight, yester day, and took $100 in silver from the owner's .residence and after ward burned the house of the over seer and a" warehouse containing $5,000 worth of tobacco. The bandits then rode into Caim ito, where they plundered two dwellings, and then went to a third, where a dance wasf in progressl A captain, a sergeant and two Cuban soldiers and the other guests crowded to the doors and windows to see what was the matter. The raiders fired a volley at close range, killing the captain and one soldier and one man in the house. The bandits then galloped away. : Pritchard as an Inventor. The following Washington dis patch to the Raleigh Post of yes terday tells of a brilliant scheme inaugurated by Senator Pritchard to relieve him of some of the cares of political life: ; "As a result of Senator Prit chard's political conference j with the President while here last week, he decided upom a new plan for se lecting and recommending for ap pointment fourth-class postmasters in North Carolina. The adoption of the hew plan will relieve the Senator of much labor and annoy ance, while at the same time it will enable him to keep a strong hand on the political machine in North Carolina, which he is quietly but steadily building up. Under tne plan now in operation the three Re publican Congressmen of the state who represent the Second, Eighth and Ninth districts, have been left to select the fourth class postmas ters in their respective districts, and Senator Pritchard has made the selections in all the other; dis tricts 1 represented by Democrats and Populists, except the ; first, where Mr. Skinner was always con sulted, i "Under the new; plan, the two Republican Congressmen White and Linney will stil select the fourth-class postmasters in j their districts but in the other seven dis tricts Senator Pritchard will relieve himself of the work by designating a referee, whose recommendation to the Postoffice Department here will carry the same weight as Senator Pritchard's endorsement. The plan has already been put into effect in the Fifth district, where Senator Pritchard has select ed Spencer B. Adams as the referee, and handed his name to the (Pest master General. Mr. Adams; was the Republican candidate for ; con gress last fall against Congressman Kitchin. In each of the other dis tricts Senator Pritchard. will select a representative Republican as ref eree. To him all candidates for position for fourth-class postmas ter will be referred. He will exam ine their papers, determine their party services and put bis O. K. on the papers of the candidate he se lects for appointment. These pa pers will then be forwarded to the Postoffice Department. !j Did a Spanish SnelKill Bagley? New York, April 14. The Washington correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle says: "From inside official circles comes the report that before long the country may be treated to an other sensational story in connec tion with the late war. It is said that proof will be forthcoming to show that at the battle of Carde nas the snots that struck the Win- ... . , i slow and killed Ensign Bagley were fired, not from the Spanish forts, but from the United States; gun boat Wilmington, the fire of the latter being too low to reach the shore." The correspondent says he isJ unable to obtain any detailed state ment in regard to this extraordi nary report, but what has been written above comes from a relia ble source. A Dog Saves Ten Lives. Felton, Del., April 15. The re markable instinct of a dog saved the life of ten people at Carters Crossing. Alam Graham and bis family were awakened during the night by the violent barking of the dog and its scratching at a side door. Starting downstairs with a revolver, Mr. Graham opened the kitchen door only to be enveloped in flameB. The carpet had been ignited by sparks from the stove, setting fire to the woodbox and firing the en tire room. By hard work the family extinguished the flames. The: dog had evidently been aroused by the loud crackling of the flames, and ten minutes later there would have been no avenue of escape fori the doomed family. Slaughter of Cattle in an Over , turned Car. j ; Maeion, April 14. A car loaded with cattle jumped the track near Rutherfordton, on the South Caro lina and Georgia Railroad. The accident resulted in a butchery, of dumb animals. The tram carried passengers also, and was headed, for Marion. The number of cattle killed was nine. They belonged to Mr. J. L. Morgan, of Marion. The cattle car was the only one; that left the track. It went off a high embankment, and turned over the third time. The cries of the j ani mals were terrible. The Post advocates the building of a tabernacle in Washington City for Dr. Talmage. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Tbe Kind Yea Ilavo Always Bcught Signature of jfU RAILROAD SIGNAL LIGHTS. Proposed Adoption of the Ensrllah Syitem on American Roads. i Among American railroad men there has been a, controversy extending over many years as to the desirability of ac cepting the English system of night signals in place of the American. At present a white light displayed along the line of an American railroad signi fies "safety, all well," while a red light signifies "danger, look out," and a green light "caution, go slow." These are the established signals, the red be ing the most conspicuous, and therefore the best adapted for the purpose of se curing immediate attention. On Eng lish roads the red light is in use in cases of danger, but instead of a white light for safety a green light is used, and instead of a green light for caution a yellow light is used, the three English railroad colors being red, green and yel low instead of red, white and green, used for like purposes among American railroad men. The proposed change from the exist ing American to the current English system has been discussed, recommend; ed, opposed and experimented upon for a number of years, with tbe result of an apparent agreement" among railroad men that white is not a suitable color for a signal. It is indistinct and is subj jectto two other : objections its sim ilarity to ordinary lights used for illumi nation and the iact that a railroad lan tern, if broken, gives out a white light. If, therefore, as is argued, a red lantern should be broken on one side and the glass should fall out, it would emit a white light which would indicate safety to the engineer, whereas the real sig nificance of the signal was danger the exact contrary. Recently the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail road has made a change in its night signals in accordance with the English system, and it is gradually putting it into operation on the various divisions of the road. The management of the New Haven, which is one of the great est passenger carrying systems in the world, has been making a study of the question of signals and has adopted this new system after a long series of experi ments by experts. A green light is easier seen at night than a white one, and yellow shows very well in the dark and is easily distinguishable along the road. Moreover, since the adoption of the modern method of electric lighting on passenger cars white is the general color for such interior illumination, an additional reason why it should be dis carded for signal purposes. The objec tion to the change, however, comes from the fact that railroad men from long usage have become accustomed to the present American system and that some confusion might perhaps result from the attempt to substitute one light for another without general knowledge of the change. New York Sun. In Ilia Place. The author of "Cannon and Camera, " "a war. artist at the front" in Cuba, says that, after the destruction of the Maine, Father Chidwick, her chaplain, could be seen going hither and thither, now on tbe shore and now afloat, caring for the bodies recovered from the wreck and setting down all possible notes which might lead to their identification. Holzer, his zealous and indefatigable assistant, was among the wounded and took his fate like a hero. V When he was dying in hospital, Cap tain Sigsbee said a few cheering words to him and held out his hand. J "I can't shake hands with you, Cap tain Sigsbee," said he. "My hand is' not in condition, sir!" "Ah, my lad," said the captain, "you ; took the wrong ship when you chose the Maine I" j No, sir I No, sir I It was the right ship I have nothing to regret." Soon after he died. Prehlntorlo Man a Cannibal. What was the favorite food of pre historic man? According to Dr. Matieg ka of Prague, it was his brother. . In a learned article in the miscellany of the Anthropological society of Vienna he proves from an examination cf some prehistoric remains at Knovizc, in Bo hemia, that the people who buried them were cannibals, not from need, but from choice, and that they preferred the flesh of their own relatives, especially if young and tender, to that of their ene mies. He also contends, and most an thropologists seem to agree with him, that the eating of human flesh was in prehistoric times spread all over Europe, the practice being first induced by scarcity of other food, next by prefer ence, and was finally persisted in for religious, or rather ceremonial, reasons. The flesh was in every case-prepared by cooking, sometimes. with the juice of oranges and lemons. Pall Mall Gazette. Spoiled by a Kiss. John Brown of Ossawattomie they led him oat to die. And, lo, a poor slave mother with her little child pressed nigh. And the bold blue eyes grew tender and the old harsh face grew mild As he stooped between the jeering ranks and kissed the negro's child 1 -Whittier. The kiss that old John Brown gave to a little colored child as he was led out to be hanged forever checked the child'sTcareer as a useful person. Owen Carter cf Charlestown, W. Va., was the little colored baby held up to receive John Brown's last kiss. He is now 43 years old, has 14 children and has never done a stroke of honest work in his life. He lives on the tips of curi ous and foolish tourists and the free will offerings of his, own race. New Vork World. A Scotchman's Grit. At Omdurman Colonel Hector A. MacDonald -in the words of another ofiicer "saved the day. " Bidden to re tire when hard pressed by the dervishes, the gallant brigadier took it upon him self to refuse. "I'll not do it," he said. "I'll see them, banged first. We maun iust fight" And he fought and won. London Mail. - : - ' lJ 1 I 1 i n n n n ri J U u.uLs 500 yards good Calico at 2Ac. 2,000yds good cotton Cbecks,2Ac 5,000 yards fine Calico ; Shirt Waists and Dress Patterns at 3c. 1,000 yards good 36 in. Percale t 5' cents. r Ij I 2,000 yards good Domestic, 3$c. 4,000 yards Fruit of the! Loom Bleaching at 5c. j ;! I 3,000 yards Barker Mills BleacU- ing. at 5c. 7;. ;;.;' ,; I. v ,' 5,000 yards Androscoggin Bleach at 5c. :. ' I . , Limited quantity of Bleaching to eacn customer. 3,000 yards Sea Island Percale, 36 inches wide, at 7c j i 1,000 m dozen Ladies' i and Men Hose at 2c. pair. 50 doz. good Towels at 2 je. 300 pairs Pants at 15, 20, 25 and 35 cents. , . 500 vardfl all nnl rlj- - .www wvmm at 19c. 200 yards fine Lawn for Summer Dresses, all cotton, all styles, 6c. quality at 3$c. Ladies' Re'ady Made Dress Skirts? at 98c, $1.25, $1.48, $1.69, $l.Sof fine gooods and all cotton. It will not pay you to have them Bade when you can buy at these prices. 100 dozen Men's heavy 4-ply Linen Collars, 15c. quality, at 5c. The finest line of Silks for Shirt Waists in Greensboro. 75c. qual ity at-48c ; 85c. quality at 9e.; $1 value at 79c; 50c. value at 29c. . : - - .. .. i; o t " i-3" w f , " "-S BUY THE CEIEBATED JAMES MEANS $2 50 SHOES FOR THIS SOLE YOU CAN GET THEM AT $1.68. Good heavy plow Shoes at 74e." 100 pairs Ladies' fine Button $1 Shoe at 69c T 200 pairs Ladies' fine Shoes, but- 200 pairs Men's $3 Calf Shoes, hand made, for $1.98. A fine Sum mer Straw Hat given away with each pair. Don't miss this. 300 pairs Men's Fine Shoes, lace ton and lace, $1.50 quality, at 98c. and congress, $1.50 quality.at $1.15. . 400 pairs Ladies' Oxford Ties, 100 pairs Men's good solid Shoes black and tan, for summer wear, at 98c ! I ! $1.75 value at $1.25. Our goods are all pirfectly new. No old stock. All bought from the factory. The Bee jHivej is the leader in low prices in Greensboro. Come and see and you will say eo. Jlinlli oliJci -' ': V I- I 238 Soxii-tlx fflE5 jBlxrx St. ioro Center Draft Plow. j This Plow was put on the parket for the first time last year. The one-horse Plow did not give general satisfaction until after we altered the beam, ince then we have) beard no complaint of them. Toiprove that; the two-horse G. C. D. Plow has given satisfaction, of the more than one hundred Plows sold on a guarantee, we have only one on hand returned to us. There have been more than this number returned, but they have been sold to other parties who have reported that bey are giving entire satisfaction, j We make the following guarantee for these Plows: Inordinary grey land they will do all the work that the high priced Western made Plows will do. All we ask for them is a fair trial. If they are not what we say, your money will be gladly refunded. I Our object is to give our farmers a Plow that will do the work of the high priced Western Plows', and save them money both in the first cost of Plow and in the repairs. Price of the Price of the One-Horse Plow, $2.75. Two-Horse Plow '$5.00. U Jj'-A-X' U iiED 3"3T r 1 T. Glascoclk & 212 LEWIS STREET, GREENSBORO, N. C OB, Boycott's Grain and Feed Store FOE. Holt's Strawberry Corn The Best Seed Corn Grown! 116 WEST MARKET ST. IU1 Ini mm i m m - i ! I have the finest herd of REGISTERED HOGS! In the South. Pigs for sale at reasonable prices. 3ohM. JSLe YOHIlge
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